title: Role of pre-incubation in non-selective medium in recovery of Staphylococcus aureus from swimming pools and beaches.
abstract: Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from eleven open swimming pools and eleven swimming beaches in certain areas of Saudi Arabia. Pre-incubation of the water samples in a non-selective medium prior to their growth in the selective medium increased the rate of recovery over that of direct plating on the selective medium. The average increase was from 20.68% to 46.1% for pools and from 32.7% to 37.3% for beaches. Pre-incubation, therefore, is very important for the pool water which appears to contain more stressed bacteria.
authors.affiliation: Department College of Science, King Saud University, Rijadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Salamah
mesh_terms: D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D003470:Culture Media; D006801:Humans; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D012623:Seawater; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013551:Swimming Pools; D014871:Water Microbiology
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media